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| RSS Edition of Universe Today |
Oct 2, 2003 - It was easy to do, so I figured, why not? For those of you who have any idea what I'm talking about, I've added an RSS syndication feed to Universe Today. If you have an RSS reader or syndication service, you can point it at http://www.universetoday.com/universetoday.xml and download the latest headlines. I'll only be updating this document once a day, so don't bother grabbing it more often than that.
For everyone else who has no idea what I'm talking about, RSS is a standard way of downloading and syndicating news headlines. You can use special news reader which can scan dozens or hundreds of news sites and grab all the latest stories. The best software I've seen for this is called FeedDemon, which you can read more about here. Another use for the RSS feed is for programmers to automatically Universe Today's news stories into another website. Similar to the syndication service I've been running for several years.
For most of you, however, the RSS version of the newsletter is totally redundant. This email newsletter does the exactly the same thing. Just let your eyes glaze over the technobabble...
Thanks!
Fraser Cain
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| Image credit: NASA |
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| Huge Iceberg Breaks Away from Antarctica |
| Oct 2, 2003 - NASA satellites have been watching a gigantic iceberg as it disrupts the fragile Antarctic marine environment. The iceberg, named C-19, is 32 km wide and 200 km long; it broke off the Ross Ice Shelf back in May 2002. The problem is that the iceberg stopped winter sea ice from moving out of the Ross Sea region. Phytoplankton, which needs sunlight, was reduced by 90%, and so the rest of the ecosystem suffered too. The iceberg is being watched with NASA's Terra and OrbView2 satellites. |
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| Image credit: NASA/JPL |
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| Twin Telescopes Peer at Distant Galaxy |
| Oct 2, 2003 - Two linked telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea took a good look at galaxy NGC 4151 in the infrared spectrum. Located 40 million light years from Earth, NGC 4151 has been well studied by telescopes in various wavelengths, but this is the most detailed infrared image produced. The Keck interferometer works by combining the light from two 10-metre telescopes to create a virtual telescope that's the equivalent of an 85-metre telescope. |
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